Below are thought leadership pieces focused on structured products. These accounts provide insights from experts who have played a pivotal role in the field.
This article looks at how these indices are built, how they differ from real indices and the potential consequences for the investors and for the banks.
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Within the funds world there are many interesting strategies used by managers to provide diversification or outperformance over the mainstream funds in the traditional asset classes.
Citi’s multi-asset active allocation solution, developed in partnership with BlackRock as allocation provider and distributed so far in Asia via a third party private bank and retail aggregator, is gaining traction as demand for QIS and active management increases.
Over the last few years, the structured product industry has responded well to regulatory and transformational change.
The next section of our analysis focuses on call butterfly, iron condor, bull call spread and bear put Spread option strategies and how adequately their profit potential has been realised in the case of Teva Pharmaceutical (Teva), BioMarin Pharmaceutical (BMRN), HCA Healthcare (HCA), Merck (MRK), and Fresenius Medical Care (FMS).
In this article we apply the Donchian Channel on a sample of 16 stocks – Amgen, Bayer, Biogen, BioNTech, CSPC Pharmaceutical Group, CVS Health, Exact Sciences, Fresenius, Gilead Sciences, Merck, Moderna, Pfizer, Sanofi, Teladoc Health, UnitedHealth, and Vertex Pharmaceutical), as well as the Chakin Moneyflow Index and Aroon Up/Down indicator on a set of five securities.
In the third part of our analysis, we look at the markets that saw the best performance for pharma products during 2020 as well as modern portfolio theory (MPT) considerations and its deficiencies when applied to the structured product ecosystem.
Buoyant issuance in Malaysia, Belgium and France; reverse convertibles linked to pharma companies have been less affected than growth products, notably the leverage long with stop loss; US breakdown – CVS Health losing ground in sales, Merck records sustained growth.
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